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as posted by the channelThe internet has been bamboozled by a 162-year-old painting where a woman appears to be holding a smartphone.
Take a look at Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller’s “The Expected One” and you’ll immediately see a woman in the center of the painting walking through a scenic landscape to a man awaiting in the bushes, holding a pink flower.
Through a 21st-century lens, it seems as though the woman is scrolling through her iPhone while on her walk. But that obviously wouldn’t make any sense since the iPhone was released in 2007 and the painting was completed in 1860.
But according to art critics, there’s a simple explanation to the illusion.
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